Al Jolson movie quotes

“A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.”
Al Jolson

“Radio? A guy smooching in front of a mike, afraid to take his eyes off the script. Phooey! That's not show business!”
Al Jolson

“Maybe show business is getting to be a lost art. It used to be if a kid was hit at the theater when they had 'amateur night', a scout would see hima nd get him a break in burlesque, or in a medicine show, or the circus. Then if they had what it took he'd latch on in vaudeville. Finally maybe he'd be ready for Broadway in a musical for Ziegfeld...” (continue)(continue reading)
Al Jolson

“After I die, I'll be forgotten.”
Al Jolson

“This is it! I'm going. I'm going.”
Al Jolson

“I'll walk a million miles for one of your smiles.”

Al Jolson - Jakie Rabinowitz

“We in the show business have our religion too - on every day, the show must go on!”
Al Jolson - Jakie Rabinowitz

“I came home with a heart full of love, but you don't want to understand. Some day you'll understand, the same as Mama does.”
Al Jolson - Jakie Rabinowitz